Reflecting on 25 Years of Peace in Northern Ireland: The Good Friday Agreement.

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Reflecting on 25 Years of Peace in Northern Ireland: The Good Friday Agreement.
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Kerrie Patterson, born minutes after the Good Friday agreement was signed in 1998, talks about her unique status as a "peace baby" and how her generation has inherited a society that can move beyond the old divisions of Catholic v Protestant and nationalist v unionist. Her mother, Anne Patterson, describes her own childhood marked by proximity to violence and how it made her determined to give her daughter a life free from the old divisions. While peace did not come overnight and sectarian violence still haunts Northern Ireland, the change from the 30-year Troubles is marked.

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